Australian Aborigine Hair Tells a Story of Human Migration

Thursday, September 22, 2011 - 17:20 in Paleontology & Archaeology

A lock of hair collected a century ago has yielded the first Aboriginal genome, along with evidence that once the Aborigines’ ancestors arrived in Australia, some 50,000 years ago, they somehow kept the whole continent to themselves.

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